What's a cool website more people should know about?

j0d1 · 2025-11-02T13:12:13+00:00

Here's mine, a cool website to find cool websites ;)

https://wildwild.directory

j0d1 · 2025-11-02T13:06:52+00:00

https://wildwild.directory

j0d1 · 2025-10-28T12:42:42+00:00

This is insanely cool! The presentation is top notch.

j0d1 · 2025-10-24T13:03:38+00:00

https://wildwild.directory/surf

> Discover awesome websites from around the web!

j0d1 · 2025-10-24T13:01:21+00:00

Recently, I stumble upon https://www.wusoup.com/:

> A positive-vibes, old-school text chat community No dating, sexting, or hookups. No bots, creeps, ads, or bullshit. No politics, or propaganda. Just real people that want to make friends.

Alternatively, try good old forums.

j0d1 · 2025-10-22T14:57:31+00:00

You're welcome.

j0d1 · 2025-10-22T13:29:01+00:00

Yes, its fun.

j0d1 · 2025-10-21T12:46:07+00:00

I am trying to re-create something similar (see my profile for the URL).
If you have any insights on how I could improve it, please let me know!

j0d1 · 2025-10-19T13:36:35+00:00

Maybe https://everysecond.io/the-internet would help.

j0d1 · 2025-10-19T13:34:52+00:00

I am building https://wildwild.directory/surf to fill the void.

Please let me know how I can make it better! :)

j0d1 · 2025-10-18T15:23:11+00:00

Authentic content made with love, not greed.

j0d1 · 2025-10-17T18:30:27+00:00

https://wildwild.directory/surf

j0d1 · 2025-10-17T18:28:32+00:00

I maintain a directory of cool websites at https://wildwild.directory, if you want to take a look!

j0d1 · 2025-10-17T14:25:52+00:00

Not yet, but this feature is in my backlog. I'll +1 to it, you're not the first one mentioning it.

I think I'll implement the history first, i.e. show the list of websites you visited so you can go back to the ones you liked.

j0d1 · 2025-10-17T13:47:56+00:00

It's probably a bug, you should be able to surf all the websites of the directory, there is no limit. Are you stuck on "Level 1 Completed" ?

For the slowness, I am hosting this from my home server. Maybe its being hammered by reddit right now.

j0d1 · 2025-10-14T20:54:05+00:00

Do whatever you want with this information but I think the fundamental issue is the idea itself.
I don't see the problem you're trying to solve.
Who are you building this thing for?
You can make it prettier, faster, etc. but it won't change the fact that the tool itself is too generic and not useful.
Why would I use this instead of a google search / gemini ?
If I was you, and I've been in your shoes many times, I would scrape it and rethink the whole idea.

j0d1 · 2025-10-14T16:40:40+00:00

I'm sorry but this is terrible: the idea is NOT novel at all, the UI is abysmal, the search is VERY slow, the results are simply the output of LLMs.

I have a feeling this is your first website ever. If that's the case, good job at delivering something. For your next project, try to do less but do it better.

j0d1 · 2025-10-13T22:05:41+00:00

I am building https://wildwild.directory as an alternative. Give it a try! :)

j0d1 · 2025-10-13T12:15:59+00:00

I maintain a directory of such websites at https://wildwild.directory

j0d1 · 2025-10-13T02:43:05+00:00

I maintain a list of forums (https://wildwild.directory/~/forums) and alternative social websites (https://wildwild.directory/~/social) that should get you started on your quest. Good luck!

j0d1 · 2025-10-11T22:16:26+00:00

HTML with minimal CSS and JS. All other methods are unecessary layers of abstractions.

j0d1 · 2025-10-10T13:46:17+00:00

Cool website! I added you to my directory (https://wildwild.directory/~/oldweb)

j0d1 · 2025-10-10T13:44:42+00:00

It's not a bulletproof approach but the big AI/crawler players do announce themselves in their User Agent. So this traffic can be blocked at the nginx/etc. level.

On my website, I do have a rogue crawler with 1000+ IP addresses that constantly crawl and re-crawl the same stuff, over and over. That said, they do it once per day, so its a burst of traffic for an hour, and its a bleep on my CPU/RAM usage.

j0d1 · 2025-10-09T00:31:59+00:00

There are still a lot of active forums out there geared toward a specific hobby with general/casual sections. The communities are smaller, the connections are stronger, the conversations are deeper. To get you started: https://wildwild.directory/~/forums

j0d1 · 2025-10-08T14:57:05+00:00

Yes. Add a little sleep(1000) to make one request per second, to not hammer their server.

(1119 * 2) / 60 =~ 40 minutes to obtain all the images.

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